Rhyton

MS4646

From: Greece | Crete | Gournia

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number MS4646
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Minoan
Provenience Greece | Crete | Gournia
Locus A13
Period Late Minoan I
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Description

Conical rhyton, with base more painted than usual; vertical paring marks on lower body. Fine, pink (7.5 YR 7/4) clay, with decoration in red to brown to black paint and added white paint. Wiped with water and burnished. Series of friezes, separated by bands: two foliate bands and grass or reed. Added white: traces on some of the dark bands. Lower part preserved.

Height 31.7 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); H. B. Hawes, 1904

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